META-COACHING AND PROBLEMS

What is the relationship between coaching and “problems?” We know that coaching differs from therapy in that therapy focuses on healing, fixing, and re-parenting. The problems that therapy addresses are those of trauma that causes a person to become stuck in the past with something that serves as “unfinished business.” Serious personality problems involving low ego-strength and/or the distorting of one’s mapping (framing) of personality undermines a person’s psychological health and leads to various forms of pathology. This is the domain of therapy.

Counseling, another domain of psychology, is a lighter form of therapy and focuses on enabling and equipping people to cope with similar problems about one’s self, one’s values, talents, skills, career, relationship, etc. Yet while the problems are a lighter version, they are still focused on the past, ego-strength, and support rather than challenge.